From September 8 through November 1,
1998
the Mildred Hawn Gallery in SMU's Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library will
be the venue for "A Greer Garson Scrapbook." This exhibition
will be held in conjunction with the Meadows School of the Arts' Greer Garson
film festival, September 11-13. It will furnish a context for the films in
the festival, as the exhibition will document her film and stage careers,
philanthropic activities, her marriage to oilman Colonel E. E. "Buddy" Fogelson,
and her friendships with a number of individuals prominent in twentieth-century
American popular culture and history. Nominated
seven times for an Academy Award, Greer Garson received the Best Actress
award in 1942 for her role in "Mrs. Miniver." The Exhibition
represents a sampling of the approxiamately 60 linear feet of archival material
donates to SMU by the actress who resided in Dallas following her 1949 marriage
to Fogelson. these Scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, and other
papers in the Greer Garson Collection are housed in Bywaters Special
Collections.